Sitemap - 2024 - Jonathan B. Ferrini Story Collection

Sounder (Movie. 1972)

Songwriter to Storyteller

Soylent Green (Movie. 1973)

How to pick a writer from four greats. INT. WRITERS' ROOM - MOTION PICTURE STUDIO - DAY

Lilies of the Field (Movie. 1963)

My Memory of Jerry Lewis

The Depiction of Homosexuality inside "Suddenly, Last Summer" (Film. 1959)

"Towering Inferno" (Movie. 1974)

Uptight? Stevie Wonder reminds us, "Baby, ev'rything is alright."

The Alchemy of Fiction Writing

Memoir of an Overseas Contractor

Ice Cube in the Sea

"Oracle" Movies

"Seconds" (Movie. 1966)

ar·chi·tec·ture (Part II)

ar·chi·tec·ture (Part I)

Feeding Frenzy

Navy Sailors in Film; Often maligned, seldom understood.

Whispers from the Chamber

"Time and Place" Movies

Head on a Wall

"This is Tom Jones"

Casting Five Femme Fatales

The Definitive "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson".

Who is Jacques Bergerac?

Why are four popular songs haunting me for decades?

Military Lawyers and their "Moral Compass" (Including "Jackets") in film.

It Takes a Foreign Eye

My short story, “The Last Stop Vineyard”, has been published by “Mobius”. Synopsis: A generational pairing of souls. https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanbferrini

My short story, “The Last Stop Vineyard”, has been published by “Mobius”. Synopsis: A generational pairing of souls. http://mobiusmagazine.com/fiction/laststop.html

My short story, “My Coffee Date with Death” was published by Mystery Tribune Magazine”. Synopsis: A desperate man finds salvation. https://mysterytribune.com/my-coffee-date-with-death-dark-long-read

Casting Actresses

Remembering Sam Cooke

Who was Jack Webb?

Ageism and Actresses

Casting Directors

Cape Fear v. Cape Fear

Remembering Barry White

Cowboys on Wheels

Revisiting the Movie "The Pawn Broker" (1964) starring Rod Steiger.

Examining the movie, "Dog Day Afternoon" starring Al Pacino (1975)

American Gigolo

California "Area 13"

Rediscovering the movie, "The Sterile Cuckoo" starring Liza Minnelli. (1969)

The Bell and Basket

The Night Watcher

A Notary Public

The Carny Contessa

The Carny Contessa

Rediscovering the movie, "CHAЯLY", starring Cliff Robertson.

Rediscovering Gil Scott-Heron

Scarecrows and Car Washes

Who is Trini Lopez?

"Sheriff Andy Taylor" as Social Influencer

When Music Mattered to Television.

From a Shoestring Budget to a String of Pearls

"I Love You, Alice B. Toklas"

Who is Jerry Paris?

Television and Film Actors

"And the OSCAR goes to..."

"One in a Million..."

Rediscovering Patrick Swayze

"Time" in Motion Pictures

Physician as Protagonist and Moral Compass in Film.

1968: Politics, Movies, Music, Television and Theatre

Who is Herb Alpert?

Television is the "Supermarket" of all media.

"Word Salads" and the Movies.

You can't make this stuff up!